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La Dolce Vita is a gorgeous 101 Hargrave Raised Pilothouse Motor Yacht 2009.
Stunning designer interior with exotic cherry and burl wood accents. Four gorgeous staterooms plus crew. Flybridge accommodates 20 with settees and large hot tub. Twin CAT C32s.
Denison Yachting is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Atlantic Yacht & Ship, Inc..
Denison Yacht Sales offers the details of this yacht in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of this boat for sale. A yacht buyer should instruct his yacht broker, or his boat surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This yacht for sale is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
"La Dolce Vita" is designed for absolute comfort and laid-back luxury at sea and in port with 4 staterooms for 8 to 9 guests, each with en suite head and berths for 5 crew aft.
The European profile with dual anchor pockets starts your tour with a great look. Stepping onto the aft deck you will begin to feel the tremendous height and volume of this yacht. The 7'2" ceilings and the higher than normal counter-top heights throughout will convince you that you are on a much larger vessel.
Entering the main salon, to Port is a generous seating area with L-shaped couch and to starboard a dramatic lighted onyx walk-up bar provide ample space for gathering with family and friends in celebration or relaxation.
Just forward of the salon is the dining area with a large custom-designed dining table beneath a contemporary cherry soffit. The dining area works well for formal and informal dinner parties.
Continuing forward, you pass through the two-story atrium companion-way which serves as an access point to the raised pilot house and galley. The galley is a signature Hargrave country kitchen with large windows and built-in dinette. From the galley you enter the very private and luxurious forward lower deck VIP Suite.
On the lower deck the Master and two of the three Guest Suites are accessed from a central foyer. These guest accommodations are impressive, spacious, private, and serene.
Moving up top to the magnificent fly bridge, you will enjoy amazing views. The retractable roof provides plenty of shade or may be opened for sunbathing during the day or stargazing at night.
From the aft deck, you enter the main salon through automatic sliding doors to find your steps cushioned by the Aga John Oyster 100% Virgin New Zealand Wool Ribbed carpeting. (The custom carpeting was designed for this boat at a cost of $40,000). The full-beam main salon is encompassed within the "wide-body" section of the yacht, adding to its spaciousness. It has a comfortable seating area with soft leather upholstery, elegant cherry cabinetry with camphor burl accents, and a bar with a striking, backlit white onyx top. Both the custom L-shaped seating and high gloss platinum washed hybrid veneer coffee table by Toseva have built-in storage underneath. The cabinetry is at waist height, engendering an open feeling which is enhanced by the 86" ceiling height throughout the main deck.
You, your family, and guests will enjoy meals at the large custom designed eight-person, high gloss platinum-glazed dining table by Toseva with its high gloss cherry table base located at the forward end of the salon. The contemporary gloss cherry soffit in the overhead reiterates the curves of the table beneath it creating a sophisticated atmosphere.
In the day head the Renaissance Glassworks custom crystal sink sits above a countertop of Emperadora Dark Marble over gloss cherry cabinetry and Perlato Suevo Marble tile floors. These features combine to bring a touch of elegance to the head.
Forward of the atrium companion-way is the country kitchen, a Hargrave hallmark. The large, open galley is a cozy spot filled with natural light for a cup of coffee or a snack. It incorporates labradorite blue Australian granite countertops with a custom Renaissance Glassworks/Onyx glass tile backsplash behind the cooktop, bookmatched burl-paneled dinette, large windows, GE Appliances. Storage is maximized by a custom pull-out pantry and custom storage under the elevated dinette. The Galley natural teak flooring also adds to inspire the galley environment for creation of epicurean delights.
The VIP is located on the main deck, forward of the galley, with a queen bed and en suite head. The location is the most private of all the guest cabins. The colors are light neutral cream with a modest amount of slate blue in the throw pillows covered in the John Hutton Tear Jerker fabric. The en suite head, where beveled mirrors on two walls and twin under-mount sinks visual create a much larger space, has marble title flooring and gloss cherry cabinetry with ample storage. Ample storage is a theme continued throughout King Baby's VIP in features such as the pneumatic lift under the queen bed for easy access to ample storage under the mattress and lift-up countertops for deep storage.
The full beam master stateroom is an oasis of calm ready to rejuvenate your spirit. It has a sophisticated feel with high gloss cherry cabinetry, Oyster Daga John, 3" crown molding and the two tier gloss cherry arched soffit over the king berth. Twin closets, a dressing table and settee complete the oasis. The spacious settee is covered in Robert Allen's Regency Velvet Linen with storage below combined with the custom storage bench and vanity stool providing storage and places to relax or snuggle up with the latest best seller.
The his-and-hers en suite head with centrally located glass-enclosed shower allows you to appreciate the full beam of this vessel. The flooring is Perlato Suevo marble tile with a 4" perimeter boarder in Emperadora Dark to match the vanity tops. The cabinetry is high gloss cherry with ample storage thanks in part to the raised counter heights. The rectangular under-mount sinks are in Biscuit with polished chrome faucets and accessories. The shower is equipped with Legacy Brass Marissa Double Loop fixtures, including body sprays, shower head, handheld spray, and everything for a relaxing spa experience.
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The starboard guest stateroom is a spacious, luxurious retreat for your family or friends. It features a queen bed covered by a custom duvet in John Hutton Antiquity fabric and throw pillows with contemporary trims, leaving this beige and pale slate blue stateroom defining the word sophistication.
The ensuite head with floors and countertops in Perlato Suevo slab marble, frameless glass shower door and custom marble shampoo caddies with stainless steel searails continue the sophisticated air of the stateroom.
The port guest stateroom has twin beds that slide together for conversion to a queen-sized bed. When an extra guest is on-board, the recessed Pullman berth overhead will supply the needed space. The upholstered headboard, with 3 beveled mirror panels above, 3" crown molding throughout and Aga John Oyster 100% Virgin New Zealand Wool ribbed carpeting combine to create an elegant and spacious guest stateroom. The bedding and fabric mimic the starboard guest stateroom to create a cohesive guest area.
The ensuite head matches the elegance of the stateroom with Perlato Suevo marble slab flooring with 3" Emperadora Dark marble border, gloss cherry cabinetry with Perlato Suevo marble countertops, Bates Lindsey rectangular under-mount sink in Biscuit and Legacy Brass Single Loop polished chrome faucet.
Crew is accommodated aft in 3 cabins that are designed with the same attention to detail as the owner areas. The very spacious Captain's cabin has a queen berth with ensuite head. Opposite is a bunk room cabin with drop down TVs for each bunk and Cantalupi reading lights above. Both the Captain's head and crew head have Perlato Suevo marble vanities, Showers with shower seats and Grohe plumbing fixtures.
Also in the crew area is a full-sized GE refrigerator. The second washer and dryer for the boat is location in this area. (The other washer dryer is located in the forward lower foyer.)
The crew quarters had a complete refit in December 2010/January 2011. This refit consisted of converting the crew from 2 stateroom/2 head layout to a 3 stateroom/2 head layout. Upon entering the crew from the swim platform you will find 2 cabins on the starboard side. The aft cabin consists of a single berth with ample storage above and below the bed as well as a hanging locker and a 22" Samsung LED TV. The starboard forward crew cabin consists of 2 over/under berths each with storage at the foot of the bed and their own 10" Alpine drop down led TV/CD/DVD player. There are drawers below the lower berth and a large hanging locker. There is a full head that separates these two rooms with an entry from both staterooms.
The captain's cabin is located on the port side consisting of a queen bed, a 36" hanging locker, and plenty of storage below and above the bed. There is a NAD AM/FM/CD/DVD tuner along with a 32" Samsung LED TV. The ensuite head is forward of the stateroom.
All crew flooring is teak and holly Lonseal vinyl flooring that was replaced in October 2012.
The aft deck shaded by the upper deck has a custom 94" X 45" teak dining table with a Compass Rose center inlay design and a silver inlay around the perimeter of the table, 5 teak chairs by Kingsley Bates, and a settee designed for alfresco dining and relaxation. The teak caprail behind the settee that also runs along the top edge of the raised bulwark towards the bow creates a rich, warm feeling for this space. There are wide teak steps to the fly bridge for easier access between the areas. Twin stairs lead down to an oversized swim platform, a convenient place for watersports activity for getting on board the tender or jetskis that can be stowed on the upper deck.
Enjoy sun or shade with La Dolce Vita's retractable top, designed for a FUN fly bridge. Access the fly bridge from either the aft deck or pilot house to enjoy the 60 inch-diameter hot tub with sunbathing area, storage and many other seating areas. You will find the flybridge an ideal spot for sunning or enjoying a cool drink at the gloss-teak bar with star inlays. Opposite the bar the seating includes a sofa large enough to seat eight and teak top Hi-Lo cocktail table for either cocktails and refreshments or dining. The second helm station on the fly bridge is almost entirely in the shade of the fixed hardtop. Its two Stidd chairs and companion seating for two more is the perfect spot to steer the yacht or watch the world go by.
The boat deck area is complete with a Quicklift 2000 lb. davit, 15' Nautica RIB Tender, Yamaha Waverunner and four (4) Kingsley Bates lounge chairs.
The pilothouse with its top of the line electronics functions both as a crew space and owner's sanctum. Chocolate brown and camel tan colored leathers make up the majority of this very masculine cockpit-like area. The pilothouse has a Stidd helm chair for the Captain's comfort and companion seating for up to five guests.
The Bow is a fabulous place to relax in the sun. For sun worshipers, it's equipped with a sunpad for three guests and forward seating that is upholstered in Holly Hunt Great Outdoors water-resistant fabric. When ready for some shade, simply open the deck mounted umbrella and it transforms into a shady conversation area.
Owner's personal effects, art work and statues are not included. A detailed list is available prior to any written offer.


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The state's oldest school building in continuous use will soon get a 21st century upgrade.
Constructed in 1909 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Mancos High School - along with other schools, the public library and the town hall - will soon be installed with high-speed broadband Internet connections. The project, slated for completion in August, is part of a larger statewide initiative to create a 4,600-mile fiber optics network.
"Connecting rural parts of the state to the rest of the world is a great economic tool," said Mancos Town Administrator Angela Phillips. "This is a positive step for Mancos."
The current bandwidth available to the Mancos School District is limited, and online classes and school labs both struggle when operating at the same time, said superintendent Brian Hanson.
"We still have folks in town on dial-up," said Hanson.
In a small school district with limited resources, today's teachers need access to information in order for students to be competitive in the global marketplace, Hanson added.
"This new service will give our students opportunities that we just can't offer," Hanson said. "We're excited."
The increased bandwidth could also affect all Mancos residents. Hanson said he's hopeful the new infrastructure would attract competing Internet service providers to help lower overall Internet costs.
The entire $100 million regional project is a partnership between EAGLE-Net Alliance and the Southwest Colorado Council of Governments. Funding is provided by the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program and matching funds and services from private and public entities throughout Colorado.
In a press release, EAGLE-Net CEO Randy Zila said communities across the state need high-speed broadband service in order to be competitive with neighboring states and the nation.
"By the time we complete this project, we will have built a broadband infrastructure that can serve more than 170 communities across Colorado," Zila said.

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Monthly Archives: September 2015
I often talk about food as an intricate element of our identity. As peoples and individuals, food gives us a common ground, an opportunity to socialize, to relate, to create memories… Beyond being elementary sustenance, food gives us a sense of belonging and it nurtures our soul… Food is community. Food is love.
Alarmingly, in the US alone, one in every five children lives in a household without consistent access to adequate food. And as I did some research, these numbers apply to Illinois as well. This is why I am proud to support the Albertsons Safeway family of stores in their national "Hunger Is" campaign. This program is designed to raise awareness, volunteer hours, and funds that will improve health outcomes for hungry children and their families.
You can help too! During the month of September, you can join in the effort to connect families and children in need with healthy food. It is really easy:
- Visit your local Albertsons Safeway store (mine is Jewel Osco)
- You can either a) make a donation at checkout or, b) purchase one (or several) of the participating products!
The program allows you to contribute without really changing your routine. For example, my neighborhood Jewel-Osco is not accepting donations (not all stores are), so I made my grocery list with a few of the participating products I already buy. Some of the participating brands are:
- Marie Calender's
- Healthy Choice,
- Bertolli's
- PF Changs
- Coke
- Unilever
- Kellogg's
- Campbell's
It is easy to find the right products in the store, because they all have this label by the price. It was really fun finding these around the store.
The program runs through September 30, so hurry! I am in Chicago, so we have no Albertsons like the ones I used to visit in California, so if you are wondering if your favorite shopping destination is participating, take a look at this list:
- Albertsons
- Safeway
- Vons Pavilions
- Jewel-Osco
- Randalls
- United Supermarkets
- Tom Thumb
- Acme
- Star Market
- Shaws
- Carrs / Safeway
- Market Street
- Amigos
Fore more information, check out your local Albertsons Safeway store or visit www.hungeris.org.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Albertsons Safeway . The opinions and text are all mine.
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The Memorial Stone is a monument in Konohagakure that lists all of their ninja that were killed in action. In the manga it is shaped like a standard slab of stone, while in the anime it looks more like a kunai-shaped structure.
It is located near the Third Training Ground, where Team Hiruzen and Team 7 were known to have undertaken their first bell test. When Naruto remarked that he wanted to have his name added to the monument, Kakashi informed him of what it was for, prompting Naruto to change his mind.[1] Kakashi spends much of his free time at the monument because his former team-mate, Obito Uchiha's, name is engraved there. Hayate Gekkō and Iruka Umino's father's and mother's names are also listed.[2]
- In Naruto Shippūden 3: Inheritors of the Will of Fire, the Memorial Stone was depicted in a similar fashion to its manga form.
- In Naruto: Path of the Ninja, Mujini Anano and Nigiri Umeboshi's names are carved on the tablet as well.


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HOLLAND - The winners of the 2010 Hope Entrepreneurship Initiative Idea Pitch competition were families.
° Lindsay Allward, a senior management major from Milford, presented "Rent-A-Parent" for parents who can't be in two places at once.
° Lisa King, a senior management and Japanese studies double major from Oxford, created a way to make shopping more efficient by labeling clothes according to body type.
° Ericka Morales, a sophomore studio art major from Holland, designed a product concept to help parents bring fun and creativity into their children's lives while the children are drifting into sleep.
A total of 16 students competed for an Apple IPAD and other prizes earlier this month through the Hope Entrepreneurship Initiative (HEI), a program sponsored by Hope's Center for Faithful Leadership. Paul Jones of Steelcase, Jonathan Koop of Add-a-Lingua, Jennifer Linart of Lakeshore Advantage, and Stephanie Milanowski of the Hope art faculty served as judges. Allward and Morales are eligible to advance to a regional competition sponsored by area colleges and universities in November.
Allward desires to "create a trust-worthy organization comprised of retirees who would be the 'rented parents'." King seeks to "label women's clothing by which body type it fits best (i.e. pear shape, apple shape, hourglass shape, and rectangle shape) and distributing the clothes by the type in the clothing stores for easy accessibility." Morales is not only pursuing patent protection for a children's product, but also copyright protection for a logo and packaging.
The Center for Faithful Leadership (CFL), through its HEI program, plans to sponsor a business plan competition for Hope College students this coming March.
"Leaders have ideas. Hope College's outstanding Christian liberal arts education enhances students' potential to be creative servant leaders," said Dr. Steve VanderVeen, who is director of the CFL and a professor of management at Hope. "HEI provides one venue to incubate this creativity."


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text: Advanced Systems Group (ASG) of Thornton, Colo., is helping two charities this month. First, the solution provider, which has been doing holiday food drives in the Denver area for more than five years, is donating food to the Food Bank of the Rockies; ASG donated 600 lbs of food last month alone and is still collecting this month. But that's not all -- ASG is also donating personal hygiene products and man power for The Road Home, a Salt Lake City non-profit dedicated to helping the homeless.


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The Land of Demons (鬼乃国, Oni no Kuni, English TV: Land of Ogres) is featured in Naruto Shippūden the Movie. It is located two countries away from the Land of Swamps. The country's priestess, Shion, can predict someone's death and seal away demons. The demon Mōryō's spirit was imprisoned here. The techniques that are passed down in this country, such as the Shrine Seal and the Shadow Mirror Body Changing Method, seem to use hand seals that are completely different from the standard twelve.
Mōryō's Spirit Seal
A large stone building whose interior opens up into a seemingly natural cavern. Part of the Ghost Army is sealed within pits around the centre, not unlike the real life terracotta army in China. Numerous ropes with what appear to be paper seals hang around across the cavern. At its centre is a shrine like structure surrounded by five pillars, a large emblem made of light illuminating it from above. According to Yomi, the chamber where Mōryō's soul is sealed is another realm separated from that of the living, and that only he, who bears the name "Yomi" (黄泉, Literally meaning: underworld), can enter. The entrance was guarded by four soldiers before the Gang of Four easily killed them.
Priestess' Compound
A large building not unlike a temple complete with torii. It is where Shion seemingly lives, guarded by countless soldiers. In the event of attack, there is a secret passage leading from the back wall of the Priestess' room to a waterfall behind the compound, which then appears to go further through the waterfall to an unknown location.


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Universal's Halloween Horror Nights already sounds pretty dandy with a "Cabin In the Woods" maze being announced this year and now there's news that a "Evil Dead" maze will be landing in both Hollywood and Orlando parks. I for one am very excited for the opportunity to see a morbidly obese man dressed up as Ash. I think that's probably the way we'd all want it at least.
"The Conjuring" doesn't come out until this Friday but New Line is throwing caution to the wind and already working on a sequel for the film. Based on what's supposed to a be a true story the film follows paranormal investigators who try to help a family being terrorized by an evil spirit. Early reviews have been decent, there's a solid chance this will be a hit and I've been sleeping pretty well so I say let's just go for it.
Good news? Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller took to the twitters to answer the question of when a "Friday the 13th" sequel would begin production. It looks like fairly soon actually, within the next month once they finish off their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles project. I can't begin to tell you how filthy that last sentence made me feel.
I completely forgot that this movie was happening but it looks like "Paranormal Activity 5" is being pushed to next year, with a January 6, 2014 being lined up. No word on why the change is being made but if I was a betting man I'd put my money on... honestly I have no idea. Trouble finding the right cleavage for the film? They've got to be running out of actresses who are willing to prance around in a tank top pretending to be afraid of ghosts at this point.
Been a while since you heard us giddy...
"The Cabin In the Woods" has a trailer! I still have no idea what the movie is about but I can 100% confirm there is in fact a cabin and it is in fact in the woods.
"The Devil Inside" is yet another addition to the long list of exorcism flicks that have made their ways into our hearts over the past couple years. But hey here's some new screen shots from the film and they look like they were filmed on some crappy VHS recorder that they found at the back of someone's mother's closet so that's something new. I'm not saying it's a good thing, I'm just saying it's new.
The Ring Lord himself Mr. Peter Jackson has recently wrapped up production on a new documentary about the "West Memphis Three", a true story about three men who were wrongfully accused for the murder of three 8-year-old boys and subsequently spent 18 years in prison. I don't have any sarcastic comments here, cause ya know even I'm not that big of a monster. I'm close... but not that big.
You ever see that movie "The Warriors"? Man it's awesome. I love the speech that main guy gives about "turf" just before all hell breaks loose. It's so dope, son. Anyway the movie "Turf" is a big screen adaptation of a graphic novel by the same name and has absolutely nothing to do with that speech or "The Warriors". There's a bunch of gangsters, vampires and aliens battling it out in 1920's New York though. Oh man, The Baseball Furies! They scared the crap out of me.


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Vote of Confidence: CBS Gives Full-Season Orders to Vegas, Elementary
To date, 40 percent of new series have back-nine orders
CBS has gone all-in on its two surviving freshman dramas, giving back-nine orders to Vegas and Elementary.
Starring Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis, Vegas premiered Sept. 25 to 14.9 million viewers and a 2.5 rating in the 18-49 demo. The older-skewing series (median age: 60.7 years) performed even better with CBS' target demo, averaging a 3.6 rating among adults 25-54.
Thus far, three episodes of Vegas have aired since the season began. (The fourth installment was pre-empted by the second presidential debate.) Season to date, Vegas is averaging 12.9 million viewers, making it the biggest new reach vehicle on TV. The period drama is also averaging a 3.1 in the 25-54 demo.
Elementary was a shoo-in for a full-season pickup, debuting to 13.4 million viewers and a 3.1 rating in the 18-49 cohort. The Sherlock Holmes reboot also put up a big number in the target demo, notching a 4.0 ages 25-54 rating.
As is the case with Vegas, CBS has aired three episodes of Elementary. Most recently (Oct. 18), the new series attracted 10.9 million viewers and a 3.1 rating in its guaranteed demo.
"Vegas and Elementary have opened strong, delivering big audiences and winning performances in important time periods," said CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler, by way of announcing the full-season orders. "Each of the shows has rich characters, big stars and a unique visual style that have stood out in the crowd, helping make two of our strongest nights even stronger."
While both shows are already putting up advertiser-friendly ratings, the picture improves even more so upon application of the currency. Per Nielsen's C3 ratings data, Week 1 of Vegas improved two-tenths of a point in the 18-49 demo (2.7 from 2.5) while Elementary jumped three-tenths of a point (3.4 from 3.1).
According to SQAD NetCosts data, Elementary is one of the priciest new dramas on the fall schedule, commanding a unit cost of $145,000 per 30-second spot. Vegas is a relative bargain at $110,000 a pop.
At this juncture, six other new series have been awarded full-season orders: Revolution, Go On and The New Normal (NBC); Ben and Kate and The Mindy Project (Fox) and Arrow (The CW). On the flip side, only two series have officially been canceled: Made in Jersey (CBS) and Animal Practice (NBC).
Meanwhile, in the weekly ratings race, NBC secured its fourth straight victory in the demo, averaging a 2.6 for the week that ended Oct. 14, edging CBS by one-tenth of a point. ABC finished third (2.1), while Fox averaged a 1.6, Univision earned a 1.5 and The CW trailed with a 0.7.
With one week of C3 data on the books, the year-over-year declines at ABC, CBS and Fox are rather steep. CBS is down 23 percent versus the first week of the 2011-12 season, averaging a 2.3 in the currency, while ABC is off 15 percent. Fox's opening salvo of a 2.2 C3 rating represents a 29 percent drop from its year-ago 3.1 in the demo.
Only NBC has improved, delivering a 3.0 C3 rating, up 12 percent versus last season's premiere week. C3 data for Week 2 should be available on Oct. 24.


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Goodbye, Trey Pennington… You'll be missed!
Just heard that a fellow internet marketer Trey Pennington took his own life today.
His last words on twitter were "Sure am thankful for online friends who are real friends offline, too. Love you."
This is very sad… As I said before, internet marketing can be a very lonely profession. Trey had hundreds of thousands of followers but yet he must have felt that there wasn't really anybody there for him when he needed someone.
I think many of us can relate to that.
I know this may be a cliché but suicide IS really a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Seek help if you're facing depression!
God Bless Trey's family and everyone affected by his sudden death…
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The United States Soccer Federation announced details of this year's Lamar Hunt US Open Cup on Thursday as the nation's oldest annual soccer tournament enters its 98th edition.
Similar to England's FA Cup and other domestic knockout tournaments throughout the world, the US Open Cup is, as the name suggests, open to teams throughout the nation, whether professional or amateur.
The Cup's first round gets underway on June 14 with 16 games. In all, five rounds lead to the final on Oct. 4.
More than 155 teams enter the initial stages of the tournament with a series of qualifying matches whittling that number down to 40 — including 19 professional (eight from MLS) and 21 amateur — for the tournament proper.
Those eight MLS teams join the bracket at the tournament's third round, which will be played on June 18. Six MLS teams have earned automatic berths by way of their overall regular-season finishes, while the remaining two berths will be decided through a series of play-ins.
The Seattle Sounders are the defending champions and have won the last two competitions. Since the inception of MLS in 1996, only one non-MLS team has won the tournament: The USL A-League Rochester Raging Rhinos defeated the Colorado Rapids, 2-0, in 1999.
This year's quarterfinals will be played on July 12 and the semifinals will be played on Aug. 30. All Cup matches are scheduled to be played on Tuesdays.
The 2011 champion collects a $100,000 cash prize, while the runner-up wins $50,000. The top Division III and Amateur Division clubs each receive a $10,000 prize. According to the USSF, no Division II teams will participate in this year's tournament as the North American Soccer League did not obtain provisional sanctioning in time to be included.
May 30: Qualifying Deadline
June 14: First Round (32 teams from USL PRO and Amateur Division)
June 21: Second Round (First round winners)
June 28: Third Round (Second round winners paired against eight MLS teams)
July 12: Quarterfinals
Aug. 30: Semifinals
Oct. 4: Final
Major League Soccer (Division I – 8 teams): Six automatic qualifiers based on the 2010 regular season standings and two qualifiers from a play-in competition that features 10 teams.
Automatic Qualifiers (6 berths): Columbus Crew, FC Dallas, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, Real Salt Lake, Seattle Sounders
Play-in Qualifiers (2 berths): Chicago Fire, Chivas USA, Colorado Rapids, D.C. United, Houston Dynamo, New England Revolution, Philadelphia Union, Portland Timbers, San Jose Earthquakes, Sporting Kansas City
United Soccer Leagues PRO (Division III – 11 teams): All US-based clubs automatically qualify.
Automatic Qualifiers (11 berths): Charleston Battery, Charlotte Eagles, Dayton Dutch Lions, Harrisburg City Islanders, Los Angeles Blues, FC New York, Orlando City, Pittsburgh Riverhounds, Richmond Kickers, Rochester Rhinos, Wilmington Hammerheads
United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (Amateur – 9 teams): The top US-based club from each of nine PDL divisions will qualify based on the results of four pre-selected 2011 regular season games. Each of the 54 teams eligible will play two home and two away matches that will serve as qualifiers.
US Adult Soccer Association (Amateur – 8 teams): The first and second place teams from each of the four US Soccer regions will advance to the tournament. Approximately 50 teams entered qualifying at the local or state level.
National Premier Soccer League (Amateur – 4 teams): The process for determining NPSL qualifying teams will be announced in the coming weeks. The 36-team national amateur league is affiliated with the USASA. In previous years its teams participated via USASA regional qualifying.
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The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007, decreased to the low $3 in mid-year, and surpassed $4 later in the year.
Current indications are that futures corn prices could easily remain in the high $4 range throughout 2008. In general terms, corn went up $1 in 2007 and is expected to gain another $1 in 2008.
When corn prices backed off in mid-summer 2007, feeder-cattle futures prices strengthened. But as corn prices rose last fall and winter, feeder-cattle futures trended down significantly (Figure 1).
Most market analysts predict beef exports will drive slaughter cattle to a new record in 2008. At the same time, the mid-January futures market suggests feeder-cattle prices will trend upward again by mid-summer 2008, peaking at $7-$8 lower than mid-summer 2007.
The net result is that as slaughter-cattle prices are driven to record-highs in 2008, corn prices will drive feeder-cattle prices to less than record prices. That is, the buy/sell margins for backgrounding and finishing calves will decrease. I think ranchers now fully understand that increasing costs of feedlot gains are driving buy/sell margins downward.
Table 1 presents my January suggested planning prices for Western Nebraska. This is the third consecutive month I've published my recalculated set of suggested planning prices. This illustrates the general trend in cattle prices as we move through this emerging biofuels era and experience increasingly higher corn prices.
Using Figure 1, readers can calculate buy/sell margins for many different marketing situations. For example, the fall 2007 weaning price for 550-lb. steer calves is $124 (Table 1). The price for 800-lb. backgrounded steer calves in January 2008 is $96 (Table 1). These two prices give a buy/sell margin of a -$28 ($96-$124). Readers should be able to use Figure 1 to calculate various buy/sell margins appropriate to their own marketing programs.
A downward adjustment
Even with the downward adjustment in feeder-cattle futures discussed around Figure 1, I'm still greatly concerned by my projections for continued backgrounding and feedlot losses due to overbidding for calves and feeder cattle. Basically, the feeder-calf and feeder-cattle markets aren't adjusting in pace with the corn market.
My January 2008 projected buy/sell margin for 2007 calf-feds is -$30 (Table 2), down $2 from my December projection of -$28. Large, negative buy/sell margins favor selling at weaning in what I call pre-weaning profit centers. Meanwhile, smaller buy/sell margins favor selling after weaning in post-weaning profit centers.
All my analyses suggest that a typical rancher who backgrounded his 2007 calves ended up taking a big hit through large negative buy/sell margins. My projections suggest a huge buy/sell margin of -$28 with backgrounded calves (Table 2).
It's interesting to note, however, that the buy/sell margin for finishing back grounded steers is projected to decrease to only -$3. That's low enough for me to project a $11 profit to finishing 2007 backgrounded calves!
This suggests that the feeder-cattle market is doing a better job of adjusting to the corn market than the feeder-calf market. In general, the cattle market is slowly getting closer to returning a profit to the cattle-feeding sector.
Comparing the buy/sell margins for 2007 calves (Table 2) and for 2008 calves (Table 3) suggests the buy/sell margins are indeed adjusting downward, but not enough to return a projected profit to backgrounding 2008 feeder calves, nor to 2008 calf-feds. The small projected buy/sell margin for finishing backgrounded calves is projected to start returning a profit for finishing backgrounded steers – albeit a small positive number.
Where are margins headed?
Some of my earlier work suggested that high feedlot gain costs during the emerging biofuels era may well require the cattle industry to live with -$6 to -$8 buy/sell margins for both feeder and slaughter cattle. This suggests that, by the end of the decade, $100 slaugh- ter-cattle prices will imply $106-$108 feeder-cattle and $112-$116 feeder-calf prices. Even with 2008's projected $95 annual average slaughter-cattle price, this would suggest $101-$103 feeder- cattle and $107-$109 calf prices.
It's very important that ranchers un- derstand buy/sell margins can be adjusted in three ways.
- Feeder-cattle prices can be reduced.
- Slaughter-cattle prices can increase.
- Or a combination of feeder prices adjusting downward and slaughter cattle adjusting upward.
It's extremely important that ranch- ers recognize that the increasing export market is what generated 2007's record slaughter-cattle prices. That same in- creasing export market is again project- ed to set another record in 2008.
Couple the growing export market with a decreasing domestic beef cow herd for the rest of this decade, and my $100 slaughter-cattle, $106-$108 feeder- cattle, and $112-$116 feeder-calf prices are real possibilities by the end of this decade. If ranchers put a strong manage- ment focus on their unit cost of produc- tion (UCOP), the ranch industry could live profitability with my suggested end- of-this-decade, biofuels era prices.


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7 gates of hell, York PA
Posted 03 May 2003 - 03:50 AM
(1) Whats at the end of the 7 Gates, ive heard is a church or a asylum?
(2) Ive also heard that noone has ever past the 5th gate, is this true?
(3) Plus has anyone got any photos or any other infomation, i would go there, but i live in Austraila so i have no way to go check it out myself but one day, when i get the cash i will try and travel over to the USA to check out all the cool stuff you have over there. Plus if anyone has a list of places in Austraila that are worth a look please tell me.
Posted 07 May 2003 - 09:14 PM
I live 15 minutes away from York. 7 gates is old. I am 18 and i have been informed that most of our parents and teachers have visited the long trail through the woods, known formerly as Toad Road. There are many legends to the happenings. 3 main ones: The psycho assylum break out, the church, and the farm where the father killed his sons or the other way around..... In my High School, a few students have rekindled the legend. I played my part by trying to convince everyone that it is a hoax and it is based on mind games. If you visit during the day it is a trail through the woods with "gates" scattered at different distances. All in all this is an 8 mile or so hike. At night suddenly it is rumored to be haunted "with things flying towards your head" and other strange happenings. I personally havent made my way up there yet, but will within the next month, when my research is fully complete, I will chance it. I say chance it not because of the "ghosts and goblins and suicidal psychos" but more so because of the hicks that carry shot guns longer than most people have ever seen and police who have strategically placed NO TRESSPASSING signs EVERYWHERE. I was told that according to the York Records dept, the building foundation (what people think is the church, farm, assylum...)that is still left off of Toad Road, was at one time a mental hospital. Although, it is a very odd place for a mental hospital, i can't know the truth until i look for my self at the library and records dept. I will let you know more later when i am done. I found no records online about a mass assylum slaughter by 2 escapees that then commited suicide. One would think that this would be documented at least ONCE online in some newspaper.
About the 5th gate... once again the mind games... My friend recently made it to the 6th or 7th and was stopped by a "little girl" saying "stop, turn around, go back" the image then disappeared and he hauled BAD_WORD out. I have heard that a person went through the last gate and never came back. I REALLY believe this is a rumor.
As for coming to USA, if it is JUST because of the 7 gates of hell that you wish to visit, don't bother, it wont be worth the time. A haunted hay ride would give you the same effect.... Other than that, we would be glad to have you.
For all of you that wish to do your own research.... ITS TOUGH nothing credible is online, everyone seems to get their information from someone else. Even if someone does find facts, no one believes the person. I feel that i will be treated the same way, and i dont blame you. it is more gratifying to find the info on your own anyway.
One more thing, there is a message thread floating somewhere around online about the directions to the place. It is the one that calls one of the roads: duck run road. First off the directions themselves are basically right. the person had no sense of direction though all the lefts are rights and all the rights are lefts. 2nd the "duck run road" is actually Druck Valley road.
if you wish to find directions take yourself from 83-south emmigsville exit to 1700 range road (the pull off area they speak off)
Use www.mapquest.com and get a map of 1700 Range road, York, PA, 17402.
when the map pops up, right above the map picture, you can use an aerial view to see the actual area. I found that very useful.
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"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." Albert Einstein
I've been hit by mrsspookypants
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Posted 05 November 2007 - 02:55 PM
I Googled "7 Gates of Hell" and all I'm getting is rock music links?
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Posted 05 November 2007 - 05:06 PM
Above are a couple more links. The last one has an actual team with equipment. It's interesting and probably worth a couple looks.
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Posted 06 March 2008 - 10:05 PM
Hey everyone, ive been reading about the 7 gates of hell in York, PA. ive just got a few questions.
(1) Whats at the end of the 7 Gates, ive heard is a church or a asylum?
(2) Ive also heard that noone has ever past the 5th gate, is this true?
(3) Plus has anyone got any photos or any other infomation, i would go there, but i live in Austraila so i have no way to go check it out myself but one day, when i get the cash i will try and travel over to the USA to check out all the cool stuff you have over there. Plus if anyone has a list of places in Austraila that are worth a look please tell me.
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Posted 23 April 2008 - 01:49 PM
The first time we parked along range road and walked up what appeared to be an old driveway. We heard a lot of really strange noises(we were not drunk or on drugs) while walking up this road. This road eventually lead to a maintained dirt road, that has a gate and connects to range road farther down, which wasn't what we were expecting to find. We walked up the dirt road and decided to turn back. We turned into the woods where we entered the dirt road instead of following it down to range road. when we entered the woods a giant pickup truck came flying up the dirt road shining a spotlight towards us. We crawled out of sight of the light and ran back to the car.
The next trip i went to the the edge of Trout Run(Toad RD) and parked in the corner. There was a gate to the left, a gate that went straight and a house on the right. We took the left gate and ended up at the creek, it was early march and we weren't crossing it. We turned back and took the other gate. We walked quite a few miles, I'm suprised we didn't run into codorus furnace rd. We didn't really find anything but there was a really cool rock along the creek with stuff painted on it from the 60's and 70's. I think I'll take some pictures of that whenever I return.
I talked with someone from GHI (www.ghosthuntersinc.org) a few years ago and he seemed to think there was a right turn off of the road that i had missed. I tried to google map it but it won't zoom in far enough.
If anyone has any more information or has found another trail, please let me know!
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Posted 11 July 2008 - 11:14 PM
Since it has been a long time he cannot remember since it was like 1 am in the morning in the dark.
I took a snap shot of the area the appears to be where the path is leading to the creek.
Hope this is it
Any corrections let me know.
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Some Nokia Lumia 900 customers have been experiencing a loss of data connectivity—both LTE and 3G—on their new handsets. Nokia has identified the problem and devised a software fix, which will be rolled out on or around April 16th. Customers not wanting to wait can have their phones swapped for updated versions in AT&T stores. The company will also give any AT&T customer buying a Lumia between now and April 21 a $100 credit on their next bill.
With the phone's $99 on-contract price, this means that it's now effectively free for anyone buying in the next ten days.
Reports of connectivity problems afflicting some handsets, but not all, have been swirling around the Internet all day. Many handsets appear unaffected, but others lose connectivity after rebooting, unable to re-establish a data connection until they are hard reset or, in some cases, have some extra settings added.
These problems led to speculation that there was a manufacturing defect in some handsets made in Mexico (though other units, made in South Korea, appear to suffer the same issue), or that there was a problem with AT&T's provisioning process.
However, Nokia is taking the blame, claiming that the issue is a pure software problem, not a hardware defect, caused by a "memory management" issue. The patch on the 16th will remedy the bug, and any new handsets bought from AT&T should avoid the bug in any case.
The swift and generous response by the company underscores the enormous strategic importance of the handset—and compares extremely favorably to Apple's "antennagate" reaction, in which the company did nothing to address the underlying issue, opting only to offer cheap bumpers for a limited time.
The issue, and subsequent fix, raises further questions about AT&T's troublesome attitude towards updates. Indications are that the problem was first reported by AT&T's own staff (rather than any formal testing), and the fix will be authorized by the phone network and deployed within a week.
The internal testing apparently didn't even detect an important connectivity problem, and if the turnaround can be this quick for this update, it makes one wonder why AT&T refuses to authorize the roll-out of the keyboard-disappearance bug that Microsoft fixed in January.


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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Married to the Mob Denim Line
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New Complex! Will Ferrell & Andre 3000
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The Underground: M1 Platoon
So I did an interview with Arafat Yates, an upcoming producer/rapper and member of the M1 Platoon. He is cool as shit and at the time of the interview he told me M1 P was working on a mixtape. I told him to hit me wit it once it was done. Well......it's done!!!!! And it is certified heat!
First off, Ima chick that loves beats and these beats are lovely. They got beats wit old school flava like the tracks "Check Me Out" and "Firehouse Confessions." And I must say I love the beat on "Paper Boys"...shout out to Yates! "Get it On" is another perfect track...it's got all the elements of a banger. Good flow+ banging beat+ lovely lyrics= M1 Platoon.
The lyrical shit on here is equally as lovely as the beats. I have to say my fav songs are "Welcome." DO YOU RIDE WIT YOUR HEART ON YA SLEEVE...DO YOU VOW NOT TO UNDERACHIEVE!!!!! It has the beautiful beat and it just makes you feel o so good. They even have a song for the ladies! "How You Gona Front" is another one of my fav songs on the mixtape. It's cute as shit.
M1 Platoon is bringing sum nu-nu shit out of D.C., shit that you aren't yet accustomed to hearing. You have to be on a higher level to understand what these dudes are doing to the game.
If you don't understand there lyrical style (because it's that nice), then just bob your head to the banging ass beats on that joint. This is real hip hop....point blank. I don't really know you guys, but thank you for sharing this masterpiece wit me. Much love to M1 P and keep doin ya'll thing.
if you want the mixtape cuz this blog aint let me put the link on here. BOOOOOO!!!!!
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Glow in the Dark Tour
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Heath Ledger (April 4, 1979-January 22, 2008)
The famous star, from one of my favorite movies 10 Things I Hate About You and that gay romance Brokeback Mountain, which I found quite entertaining, has suddenly died. The whole thing is shocking and unfortunate. The young star is supposed to appear in the new Batman movie as the Joker, and that role is said to have maybe influenced potential drug intake. RIP Heath, we barely knew ye!!!!
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Eye Candy of the Week: Bob Marley
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Monday, January 14, 2008
Disney Is Finally Making A Black Princess Movie!!!!
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Roc Boys in the Building....o yea and B
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Amy Went Blonde!
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Lucy Lui
All of these looks are hot and include leather...who doesn't love leather! The leather gloves, the leather boots, and the whole damn dress on Cassie is leather! Hot hot hot!
-Doe Chee$e
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Barbie by Patricia Field
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I need an AROUND THE WAY GIRL
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B and Jay tie the knot
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
M.I.A. for Marc Jacob
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Kanye Is Back!
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Fafi + MAC= Lovely!
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Kimmie E's Guide to New Year's Resolutions-Chopped & Screwed
After you've taken off your freakum dress and 5 inch-nobody-designer-heels you begin to sit and wonder how you can re-vamp your life for 2008. You develop a list of rhyming words like "I'll be great in 2008", or "don't hate in 2008". Blah blah blabbity blah! Just stop! Resolutions don't resolve a damn thing and I have the proof, cuz' you know I speak the truth (see the rhyming is contagious in the new year)! Let us begin the chopped and screwdness of the oh so famous new years baby and its shitty resolutions!
1. The "I-wanna-loose-weight" resolution- Ok, ok, ok...people this NEVER works. Why? Well maybe because it takes dedication, concentration, and destruction of the natural self! Who wants to be a butless size negative 2 anyway? Not I! The reasons why you should lay this to rest are as follows, a) that food is nasty and it costs entirely too much money and it tastes like flavored cardboard, b) by not using carbs, sugar, or salt you are commiting a sin and it's probably against the law, c) you
shouldn't have been eating so much in the first place! Resolution Chopped and Screwed- if you still wanna loose weight, I suggest lipo and trimspa, its easier on the eyes, and you know you can't give up those chicken boxes and half and halfs that easily!
2. The "ima-be-abstinent" resolution- Lets just get down to it. A) unless you have a religious conviction or have caught an STD (or STI) in the last 6 months, you can't succeed, b) people might start thinking your gay, c) you might start thinking your gay (not that being gay is taboo or anything, hey if you're gay you might start thinking that you're straight). Resolution Chopped and Screwed- buy some condoms.
3. The "ima-stop-cussin" resolution- oh shit! A) See it never works, b) damn, c) shit! I just dropped my kick on the floor! Resolution Chopped and Screwed-only curse when something bad happens.
4. The "ima-stop-drinking-and-smoking" resolution. I would just like to point out that you most likely got drunk on December 31, a) getting drunk is fun and you know it is, b) NICOTINE is a DRUG and all your going to do is get addicted to the gum, c) you'll just find a substitute to smoke, like a black clove, and we all know how substitution goes. Resolution Chopped and Screwed- wait until you graduate from college
because that's when it becomes a problem lol
5. The "ima-get-straight-A's" resolution- Well, well, well...a) you're
not, b) you're not, and c) you're not. Sorry, but you're not, with all that loosing weight, smokin, drinking, and buying condoms your gonna be doing, getting straight A's is just as far-fetched as getting famous on myspace (or is it?). Resolution Chopped and Screwed- settle for a 2.0, it keeps me grounded
6. The "ima-get-super-duper-fly" resolution- Ha. Hahahaha. Ha. Right. a) studies have shown that fly/fresh is a gene, b) its hereditary, passed down from parents to children only, c) if you haven't done it now, its damn near impossible. Resolution Chopped and Screwed- Go buy some
citizens and pretend that that's all it takes.
7. The "ima-get-wifed-up" resolution- OK, a) you make yourself sound
desperate, b) who wants to be married before your actually married, c) how old are you again? Right, that's what I thought-it won't last...duh. Resolution Chopped and Screwed- everyone is single in college, remember that.
8. The "get-out-of-debt" resolution- a) For starters I thought we had to owe white America money in order to establish credit, b) student loans...HELLO, you will be in debt until the day you die, and c) you probably owe your sisters' baby's father's niece 100s for all the weed you've been smoking! Resolution Chopped and Screwed- debt is your friend, they give you the 6 month grace period after graduation for a reason, to stop smoking, be abstinent, and to save all that money to pay back your loans!
9 and 10...just live life and get your hair done, and a new tattoo, its the best kind of self help you can get these days!
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WTF! Corbin Bleu
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Custer Man Kills Mountain Lion on Front Porch
CUSTER, S.D. (AP) - A rural Custer man who discovered a mountain lion lounging on his porch shot and killed the animal.
South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks wildlife manager John Kanta tells the Rapid City Journal that the man shot the lion with a .22-caliber rifle Monday night and the animal died about 50 feet from his front door. He says the female lion weighed about 80 pounds.
Kanta says it's possible that the lion was after the man's pets. He says the killing was justified because the lion posed a danger to the pets and to the man.
Kanta did not identify the man.
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Phil Mickelson choked on a gimme putt this week, but it wasn't on a golf course.
According to the AP's golf writer, America's most popular golfer "put his popularity on the line with polarizing comments about how much he has to pay in state and federal taxes."
"Polarizing comments"?
Good grief.
Now it's "polarizing" for an American to hint that because of the higher federal and state income tax rates on millionaires leveled by Sacramento and Washington, he might have to migrate to Florida or Texas?
Though he had every right to, Mickelson didn't knock Obama or gripe like a Tea Partier about the federal, state and local tax bite on his estimated $45 million in annual earnings - about 62 percent.
Mickelson spoke the truth. Most pro golfers already live in Florida, and for good reason. It's not because of the warm weather, it's because there's no state income tax.
Tiger Woods, who bravely stuck up for Mickelson, has admitted without shame that he moved to Orlando years ago to escape California's income tax, which is now set at 13 percent on California's 35,000 remaining millionaires.
Ditto for Rush Limbaugh, who became a Floridian because of New York's confiscatory state and local taxes.
It's outrageous that any American -- Mickelson, Woods, Mitt Romney or super-liberals like Babs Streisand or Bobby Redford -- is forced to fork over 60 percent of their honest earnings to government.
But it isn't just wealthy pro golfers who are being driven out of California by high taxes.
Before Jan. 1, an older surgeon I know closed his practice, laid off his four employees, sold his house and moved to Nevada.
He was still a practicing surgeon, not because he needed the money but because he loved being a surgeon.
But the higher income tax rates now in effect under Proposition 30 for those earning more than $250,000 were too much for him and so the Broken State of California lost a good surgeon and four other jobs.
It's a shame Mickelson turned out to be such a wuss. Wouldn't it have been great if he had stood tall and become a tax-protesting hero - the Gerard Depardieu of America?
Depardieu, the wealthy and popular French actor, shocked the liberal intelligentsia of Europe with his defiant, politically incorrect and very public stand against France's confiscatory tax on the rich.
Decrying the 75 percent levy his socialist government is trying to put on millionaires, he moved to Belgium, gave up his French passport, and accepted the grant of citizenship from Russia, where the income tax is a reasonable, flat 13 percent.
Mickelson, meanwhile, chickened out.
He issued a sniveling apology this week, saying, "Finances and taxes are a personal matter, and I should not have made my opinions on them public. I apologize to those I have upset or insulted, and assure you I intend not to let it happen again."
How pathetic.
Now it's apparently an insult to the poor -- or a thought crime -- for a rich and successful American to publicly point out that his taxes are so high he's thinking of moving to where they're lower.
It's too bad about Mickelson. Instead of apologizing and backtracking, he should be telling everyone about how high taxes are driving rich and successful people like him out of the state, demanding serious tax cuts and threatening to run for governor.
California is a state that already has more takers than makers. It can't afford any more wusses.
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ObamaCare cancer continues to spread in wake of U.S. Supreme Court's decision
ADF attorney sound bite: Steven H. Aden
ADF is challenging the Obama administration's abortion pill mandate in several lawsuits because it unconstitutionally requires faith-based employers to provide or pay for insurance coverage of abortion-inducing drugs and devices for their employees regardless of whether the employers object on moral or religious grounds.
"ObamaCare treats American citizens like subjects. This administration has used health care law to become a dictator of conscience," said ADF Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden. "The court's decision is alarming and deeply wrong. ObamaCare holds your health care hostage and offers no real choice. Either comply and abandon your religious freedom and conscience, or resist and be fined for your faith. All current ADF legal challenges to the Obama administration's abortion pill mandate will proceed."
ADF and allied legal organizations together filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case decided by the Supreme Court, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services v. State of Florida, on behalf of numerous pro-life medical groups. The brief argued that Americans should not be compelled to pay for other people's elective abortions through taxpayer subsidization in the ObamaCare state exchange system. Because the exchange system has been allowed to stand, persons of conscience will be forced to pay for the destruction of innocent human life if nothing changes.
ADF has also challenged the abortion pill mandate in several lawsuits, all of which will continue to move forward:
- Louisiana College v. Sebelius (client: Southern Baptist college)
- Geneva College v. Sebelius (client: Presbyterian college)
- Newland v. Sebelius (client: private employer with Catholic leadership)
Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito wrote a dissent saying they would have found "the Act invalid in its entirety."
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Mike Matei / October 14th, 2008
April 14, 2010 at 10:02 am
i liked when you beatdowned the bat 😀NintendoBoy
April 16, 2010 at 8:58 pm
I love how he's wearing the reebok pumps as he kicks the bat's ass. Good Job, James.Evil milkbottle
April 26, 2010 at 7:05 pm
his emotions look just like the emotic0ns >:(gonzoneil
May 18, 2010 at 1:23 am
one of my favorite AVGN quotes is the whole Drac's Night Out rant about buried shits.c64kicksass
June 7, 2010 at 3:48 pm
The Commodore 64 isn't primitive. It was ahead of its time and IBM PCs (as we have today) took 10 Years to get that far.
Fred Fuchs is (I bet you know already) is a valid german name. It means Fox.
Btw this also works the other way round:
The VIC 20 wasn't released in Germany under that name. Why?
They thought "vic" came too close to german "fick" which REALLY means "fuck" (although we would have pronounced it "wic" instead of "fic").
So they wanted to call it "vixen" which means masturbating… they released it as the VC20 which they translated to "VolksComputer" much like Volkswagen.
Sorry for clever-shitting you, but I'm a nerd, too.
February 15, 2013 at 10:13 am
It's primitive by today's standards, that's what he meant. You really didn't catch that? I think you're also the 10000th person without a sense of humor to whine about the Fred Fuchs name issue.
October 25, 2013 at 8:53 pm
The first human being to chip a rock to make a blade was ahead of their time. Despite that, stone tools are primitive.
Don Skiver
May 12, 2014 at 12:47 am
lmao… You make an excellent point my friend. Well said.Flarsson
June 13, 2010 at 10:48 am
Waite whos this guy? Fred Fuchs?! Fred Fuchs?!dcwombat
June 21, 2010 at 11:07 pm
I love the nerdMoertel
July 4, 2010 at 5:25 pm
the dracula on Gameboy has the same music as a level in Gex-Deep cover Gecko 😀peachdaisy22
July 28, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Somewhere I have a bat toy just like the one you have. Hmmm… -.-DarkNeonRain
August 19, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Soo many great moments and lines in this episode. fred fuchs…. poor little guy. one of my favorites. great work jamesMatiaxx89
September 9, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Dracula is like…. Duuuuuuh??? haha, best part after "dont know how to fuck something?"Ramuzik
September 10, 2010 at 3:58 am
Fred Fuchs, Fred Fuchs?!….aahh Fred Fuchs!.lolZelda_Boy
October 5, 2010 at 10:24 am
dude! why aren't there more games where you play as Dracula!? playing as a vampire is way more fun than as some stupid human…….I fuckin hate vampire hunters……..phoenix252005
October 21, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Fred Fuchs?!?!! Frikin funny! How bout the other crazy names on there? lolfuertherbube
October 23, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Fred Fuchs
"Fuchs" means "Fox" in german. The letter U is mispronouced.
October 24, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I love the cinematography of this episode. It's IS similar to that of "Nosferatu" and Universal's "Dracula."
My family used to have a VIC-20, and I remember us still having the keyboard, cassette player, and a controller when we stopped using it. When I was growing up, I played them as toys when I was playing around in the basement.
I still find "Don't know how to "F#CK" something" funny as… f#ck.
The discription James made about "Drac's Night Out" Is how I describe that unreleased Fantastic Four film from 1994 that was produced by Roger Corman.
I've played some of Countdown online. …Why am I saying this?
I've also played some of the NES version of "Bram Stoker's Dracula," and I also find the gameplay and music weird.
I also find the name Fred Fuchs hilarious.
I've seen "Bram Stoker's Dracula," and the clip after you're defeated DOES come from the movie.nomad175
November 28, 2010 at 12:03 am
Don't know how to f–k something makes me laugh every time. Also, a Sesame Street game?
December 7, 2010 at 2:55 am
Love the Pink Floyd reference. Greatest band in the world. By the way,
*Picks up Loudspeaker* NERD! DO SOMETHING ON METROID OR DONKEY KONG.
December 18, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Ah Text games, the bane of my life back when I tried playing the Sherlock Holmes game.
Grave indeed.mcnerven
December 20, 2010 at 6:43 am
Fred Fuchs is my new name for all my video game characters. Too bad FF3 (VI) only lets you use 6 characters…F.Fuchs just doesn't have the same feel to it.
January 4, 2011 at 8:06 pm
don't know how to fuck something….
I die laughing every time
January 23, 2011 at 2:06 pm
And I could see that there were thousands of rats. With there eyes blazing red, like his only smaller. And then he held up his hand and they all stopped! and I thought he seem to be saying: rats ! Rats! RATS! THOUSANDS! MILLIONS OF THEM!
I want a Dracula Game where I play as Renfield!Mad Hatter
February 14, 2011 at 7:44 pm
lol you seem to know pretty well Pink Floyd, the best band of all times
March 20, 2011 at 1:45 pm
just tried a downloaded game for the Commodore PET (1978)
Computer asks "DO YOU WANT INSTRUCTIONS?"
I entered "Y"
Computer asks "YES OR NO – – ?"
I entered "YES, ASSHOLE"
Computer says
and brings up the instructions.Otacon126
June 1, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Lol, great revew James!Masiah17
July 2, 2011 at 6:18 am
Hahaha, he really murdered that bat!cool99
July 2, 2011 at 1:27 pm
fred fucks!DoomMaster78i9
July 17, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Use 1 or 2 words ony please.
Oh I got 2 words for you! FUCK YOU!
Dont know how to FUCK something…
July 31, 2011 at 2:10 am
I eat pillows all the time, they taste great
December 28, 2011 at 1:36 pm
January 17, 2012 at 8:33 am
Me too, mine are made from barley and wheat. Mix with milk.
legend killer
February 10, 2012 at 6:31 am
Awkard again. @ThrowntoReality
August 17, 2011 at 2:21 pm
watch out for the nerdpire bat created by the angry video game nerdThe Kaleidoscopic God
September 8, 2011 at 11:41 am
MORNING SUN, VANQUISH ME!StevenKyleRickenbacker
September 15, 2011 at 7:44 pm
"use one or two words only"..
oh ok i'll give you two words..FUCK YOU
"Don't know how to fuck something"
AVGN Face palms…..DylanParrott
December 11, 2011 at 3:22 pm
that funny eat piilow
December 25, 2011 at 11:01 pm
WHY DO SO MANY GAMES HAVE FUCKING BATS!CesarSanchez
January 1, 2012 at 6:42 am
im sucked dry lolmonkmaxs
January 1, 2012 at 3:24 pm
i will give u 2 words fuck umonkmaxs
January 1, 2012 at 3:32 pm
omg omg its fred fuchs fred fuchs assAltonMc
January 2, 2012 at 1:14 am
don't know how to suck something lol XDAquaLeaf
January 8, 2012 at 6:56 pm
wearing those reebok pumps i see 😀metalfuk1
January 31, 2012 at 11:08 pm
"oh ass i mean fuck" lolzArtemiyAndreyev
February 3, 2012 at 1:45 am
A game about Dracula where Harker eats pillows. Just like the book.Faucet
February 5, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Don't know how to fuck something lol
February 10, 2012 at 4:56 pm
I'm guessing you know about this? If not, you do now! 🙂Funeralfog
February 27, 2012 at 3:13 am
makes sense why Ozzy bit the head off a bat now isn't it? hahahacpend7
March 10, 2012 at 4:53 am
I like PUMP SHOES my speed without shoe: 20, with shoe: 40 i need shoes <3TahneeGeorge
March 14, 2012 at 4:35 am
do you have to be a sign up to cinemassacre to post a comment and also does it cost any money to sign up.TahneeGeorge
March 14, 2012 at 4:41 am
i mean does it cost any money to sign up to register to cinemassacreTahneeGeorge
March 14, 2012 at 4:43 am
do you have to be registered to cinemassacre to post comments? and does it cost any money to register to cinemassacre.
March 16, 2012 at 9:40 am
@TahneeGeorge NopeJordanWalters
March 18, 2012 at 12:51 am
@TahneeGeorge what did you think you just did? took a shit?Doughy_Baby
March 21, 2012 at 1:27 am
@TahneeGeorge can't tell if trolling or us stupid.1CLVico
March 21, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Bat beat ! I'M BATMAAAAAAAAAN !!!DarrylMcEleney
March 24, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Epic ending
March 27, 2012 at 11:59 pm
The suicide DraculaReason of death: To much torture from his own games8bitheroo
April 10, 2012 at 6:53 am
there's an other game with dracula.. it's called Akumajou Special: Boku Dracula Kun and it's cool
April 16, 2012 at 5:07 am
Ha ha! Echoes DOES sound like Phantom of the Opera. Huh.Cygnus
April 27, 2012 at 2:36 pm
@Disagreer Actually, it's more accurate to say that the Phantom of the Opera theme sounds like Echoes. Roger Waters even claims that Andrew Lloyd Webber plagiarized the riff from Echoes, athough he never actually filed a lawsuit.AVGN Fan
June 17, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Dont know how to fuck something
SO FUNNYm0desty
June 19, 2012 at 4:57 am
yes, the scene is from the movies, just after jonothan sees the 3 women kill the baby, thats when ya see close up of his face.WyldeGoose
July 16, 2012 at 11:14 pm
About the A/C adapter. The reason why you see so many A/C Adapters on the cord now is because, if you notice, the darn thing heats up if you have it plugged in. That's because it's transforming 120/140 VAC coming out of your socket down to the 5VDC the game console needs to operate. That heat can accumulate in the console and even cause damage to it if there is no way the machine can mitigate the heat.TheNerdGamer
August 17, 2012 at 7:00 pm
fred fuchsKissOfEmber
September 5, 2012 at 8:10 am
I'm a little sad you didn't review Dracula: Resurrection for Playstation/PC that came out in 1999. Though to my knowledge this may be due to the fact it's a Point N Click game. If you do look at it, I would love to hear your opinion on it.HeavyIsPie
October 2, 2012 at 6:18 pm
its dracu-nerd! 🙂Shaved Badger
December 2, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Don't know whether you would class it as a dracula game but there was a master system (and game gear) game called vampire. It was a blatant castlevania rip off with all the nasty traits of a rushed hack job. Although it could be fun with persistence it got boring really fucking fast.Pawel Pawlowski
January 1, 2013 at 5:43 am
Dracula for nes.I remember this game well.You have to beat the game twice to see the ending.To this day i wonder why i forced myself to do that,so bloody hard that was.FrancisHatesYou
January 27, 2013 at 12:40 pm
The morning sun has vanquished the awful nerd
May 11, 2013 at 7:15 am
I have some textadventures on C64 and they behave differently. Most of them don't know how to fuck anything, but sometimes you get something different. One of them actually said "go wash your mouth out", meaning that the programmers expected you to swear. Another one was in german, which was really funny.
I entered "fick dich" and it said "dich kenne ich nicht".
("fuck you" – Computer:"I don't know you"). Maybe it fucks itself if it knew me better.Slyjay
June 17, 2013 at 3:51 am
Not bad. Like it when you show unreleased games. Very interesting!
October 2, 2013 at 2:16 am
watching all the episodes again 🙂
October 8, 2013 at 8:14 pm
I love this vid man! Good times!
June 23, 2014 at 9:31 pm
The only vampire RPG i really liked was Vampire The Masquerade: Redemption and to some extent i liked (because of really crazy characters) Bloodlines.
Then there was Bloodomen Legacy of Kain and Bloodomen 2. The best action-adventure was the last Legacy of Kain (you played as Kain and Razael from Soul Reaver),forgot the name …gow75
September 26, 2016 at 5:19 pm
its Fred Fuchs fu chsgow75
September 27, 2016 at 6:30 pm
do they ever call you a Hoarder James?gow75
September 27, 2016 at 7:12 pm
its Fu-chs not fucks guhlotusclown
January 4, 2018 at 12:23 pm
hard to believe after all these years this shit still makes me laugh just as hard as back in my mid 20's, how long has it been? ten years now? omg James was so ahead of his time back then.
and i've always wondered wtf was with that weird fucking helmet he wears on the snes version of Bran Stokers Dracula? when did Harker ever wear that in the movie?
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The week in review
Worst big cat maulings since a white tiger attacked magician Roy Horn October 3: A bicyclist is in serious condition after she's attacked January 8 in California by a mountain lion that attempts to drag her away by the head. The same mountain lion is believed to have killed and partially eaten another biker that same day.
Worst tell-all from a former Bush Cabinet member: Former Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill, in a new book by journalist Ron Suskind, describes President Bush's detached policy-making style as "like a blind man in a room full of deaf people" and claims Bush wanted to go after Saddam Hussein as soon as he took office.
Least surprising response from the Bush administration: The Treasury Department is looking into whether O'Neill improperly released classified information.
Best second coming for Redskins fans: Revered Coach Joe Gibbs returns to save the losing 'Skins.
Most desperate escape: Once-convicted rapist Anthony Davis Slaughter makes a break for it January 7 as a Madison County jury deliberates his latest case. Slaughter is found two hours later hiding in a nearby barn. He was convicted again.
Best news for sexually active JMU students: The James Madison University Board of Visitors votes to resume supplying the morning after pill, which it stopped last spring after Delegate Robert Marshall complained.
Worst case of missing smoke alarms: A January 7 blaze on Lexington Avenue in a house owned by Martha Jefferson Hospital seriously injures 75-year-old Claudine Swift, Elizabeth Nelson reports in the Daily Progress.
Best fire news for North Garden residents: The North Garden fire station earns a dramatically improved rating that will lower insurance premiums for the community, according to a county release.
More expensive than cocaine: Bile from bear gallbladder, the sale of which, along with wild ginseng illegally harvested from the Shenandoah National Park, has made Virginia a hotbed in international black markets, according to the Associated Press. Thirty-eight people have been indicted on state charges and eight on federal charges.
Best sign Virginians think their electric bills are too high: 77,000 Dominion Virginia Power customers sign up to be part of a pilot program seeking an alternate supplier at competitive rates.
Best angel for the Paramount Theater: Upscale fundraiser Party Parade makes the Paramount the beneficiary of its partying efforts, which are expected to raise between $50,000 and $60,000.
Worst setback for Albemarle schools' dress code policy: An appeals court rejects the county's petition for a new hearing, upholding a December 1 ruling that its school dress code may be unconstitutional. Jouett Middle School student Alan Newsom, who was forced to wear his NRA t-shirt inside out, is now suing the county for $150,000 with the help of the NRA.
Best throwing down the gauntlet in the Fifth District: Congressional candidate Al Weed and Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine propose a state university in hard-hit Southside Virginia, where incumbent Virgil Goode is firmly entrenched. Because the state is strapped, Weed and Kaine are trying to wrangle federal funds for the project.
Juiciest portrayal of the Bush twins: An excerpt in the Washington Post from Ann Gerhardt's new book, The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush, includes tidbits about how a sloppily dressed Jenna Bush dodged photographers on a state visit to France by having a valet hold garment bags to hide her, and how she screamed at her Secret Service agents, "You know if anything happens to me, my dad would have your ass," after a bar refused to serve her.


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Oct. 19, 2012 -- Today's parents may need to update their advice for crossing the street safely to: "Look both ways and turn off the cell phone!"
A new study shows teens are twice as likely as adults to be hit by a car while crossing the street because they were distracted by an electronic device like a cell phone or iPod.
Researchers found 18% of teens treated at an urban emergency room for pedestrian accident injuries were using an electronic device when they were hit by a car while crossing the street. That's compared with only 9% of adults.
Among younger children, jaywalking or crossing in the middle of the street and darting into the street were the most common contributors to child pedestrian accidents.
The results were presented today at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans.
Risky Behaviors Contribute to Pedestrian Accidents
The study looked at what factors contributed to pedestrian car accidents among 1,075 people who were treated at a major trauma center in New York City after being hit by cars in the years 2008 to 2011. Of those involved in pedestrian accidents, 145 (13%) were children.
Among children aged 6 and younger, pedestrian car accidents occurred most often because the child darted into the street (44%) or crossed in the middle of the street rather than at a crosswalk (36%).
"While most of the young children in our study were supervised by a parent or guardian, these children still exhibited a lot of risky behaviors in terms of mid-block crossing and crossing against the signal," says researcher Nina Glass, MD, of Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City.
Unsupervised activity accounted for the majority of accidents involving children aged 7 to 12 years old (53%), followed by jaywalking (47%) and darting into the street (25%).
Most teenagers aged 13 to 17 who were struck by a car were also unsupervised (88%). Among teens hit by cars:
- 32% were jaywalking
- 18% were using an electronic device
- 14% darted into the street
- 4% had used alcohol
In contrast, 18% of adult pedestrian accidents were due to jaywalking, 15% involved alcohol use, and 9% were linked to the use of an electronic device.
The results also showed children who were struck by a motor vehicle were more likely than adults to:
- be male (65% vs. 53%)
- be treated and released without admission to the hospital (70% vs. 67%)


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Vote Centers
What is a Vote Center?
Simply put, a vote center is a polling place where any eligible voter in the county may go to vote. The vote center model gives voters more flexibility on Election Day because they are not constrained to a specific polling location. Vote centers are connected through secure internet connections, and as ballots are cast, an electronic poll book is instantaneously updated.
Here is a video with more vote center information.
In 2011, the Indiana General Assembly passed Senate Enrolled Act 32 and House Enrolled Act 1242. The Governor signed both pieces of legislation, making vote centers an option for any Indiana county.
The purpose of this web page is to provide you with all the available information on vote centers in Indiana in an effort to be transparent and to aid those counties that are considering a switch to vote centers.
Below you will find interviews with county clerks, studies from independent groups regarding vote centers in Indiana, a seven step plan to becoming a vote center county, and much, much more. Keep coming back to get all the latest information, as we will be adding more information as time goes on.
Vote Center Report
In 2013, Secretary Lawson traveled the state to discuss vote centers with county clerks and other county officials. She collected feedback from current vote center clerks and those that attended the regional vote center meetings. Secretary Lawson's goal was to provide those interested in vote centers the information necessary to decide whether vote centers were a good idea for their county and also to collect feedback on vote center best practices and concerns from around the state.
The purpose of this report is to provide a summary of the information we have gathered over the past few months for the benefit of counties that are still investigating, considering and deliberating about the vote center model. To view the report, please click here.
What is the Vote Center Law?
Wayne, Tippecanoe and Cass counties submitted the following vote center plans.
-Wayne County Plan (Amendments, 2007-2011) (2012 Amendment)
-Cass County Plan (Amendment) (Amendment #2) (Amendments #3) (Amendment #4) (Amendment #5)
Vanderburgh and Fayette counties submitted vote center plans to the Indiana Election Division in August 2011.
Blackford County, Johnson County, and Switzerland County filed their vote center plans to the Indiana Election Division in March-April 2012.
-Blackford County (Amendment) (Amendment #2)
-Johnson County (Amendment) (Amendment #2) (Amendment #3) (Amendment #4) (Amendment #5) (Amendment #6)
-Floyd County (Amendment) (Amendment #2) (Amendment #3) (Amendment #4) (Amendment #5)
Hancock County, Miami County, Noble County, and Vigo County filed their vote center plans with the Indiana Election Division in 2013.
-Hancock County (Hancock County Election Board order and submittal letter) (Amendment) (Amendment #2)(Amendment #3) (Amendment #4) (Amendment #5) (Amendment #6) (Amendment #7) (Amendment #8) (Amendment #9)
-Miami County Plan and Amendments 1-2 (Amendment #3)
-Noble County Noble County Plan Amendment #1 Amendment #2
-Vigo County Plan and Amendments 1-3; Vigo County Amendment #4 Vigo County Amendment #5 Vigo County Amendment #6 Vigo County Amendment #7 Vigo County Amendment #8 Vigo County Voter Center Plan Amendment #9 Vigo County Voter Center Plan Amendment #10
Bartholomew County, Boone County, Carroll County, Clay County, Elkhart County, Wabash County, and White County filed their vote center plans with the Indiana Election Division in 2014.
-Bartholomew County (effective 2015) (Amendment #1) (Amendment #2) (Amendment #3)
-Wabash County (Amendment #1)(Amendment #2)(Amendment #3)(Amendment #4)
-White County (Amendment #1) (Amendment #2) (Amendment #3)
Clinton County, Henry County, Huntington County and Wells County filed their vote center plans with the Indiana Election Division in 2015.
-Clinton County Clinton County Vote Center Plan Amendment #1, Clinton County Vote Center Plan Amendment #2, County Vote Center Plan Amendment #3
-Huntington County (Amendment #1)
-Wells County Wells County Vote Center Plan (Amendment #1) (Amendment #2)
Adams County, Howard County, Marshall County, Montgomery County, Owen County and Pulaski County filed their vote center plans with the Indiana Election Division to be used for the first time in 2016.
-Owen County (Amendment #1) (Amendment #2)
-Pulaski County (Amendment #1) (Amendment #2) (Amendment #3)
Putnam County, Randolph County, Lawrence County, and Greene County have filed their vote center plans with the Indiana Election Division to be used for the first time in 2018.
- Greene County
- Lawrence County
- Putnam County (Amendment #1)
- Randolph County
Is the Vote Center Model Economically Feasible?
Two recent studies have shown vote centers can be a good way to control local government costs. The Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute recently released the study "Vote Centers and Election Costs: A Study of the Fiscal Impact of Vote Centers in Indiana." While it is possible that counties will save money using vote centers, the purpose of the vote centers concept is to increase voter convenience and accessibility.
The key findings of the study include:
- Vote Centers can produce significant savings for counties that implemented them. Such savings are particularly noticeable in counties with a low number of registered voters per precinct. Also, counties that already locate more than one precinct in the same location could experience significant cost savings.
- Vote Centers give local election officials more flexibility. With precincts, the number of locations and the level of staffing are fixed. County officials can do little to reduce cost per vote. With Vote Centers, election administrators can anticipate turnout and modify the number of locations and the level of staffing to suit their needs.
- Vote Centers can produce immediate and long-term savings. This study finds savings could result every election day as well as when time comes to repurchase voting equipment.
- Vote Centers will significantly reduce the number of voting machines needed to conduct an efficient election.
In addition, Ball State University's Bowen Center released a study on the conveniences of vote centers. (Summary)
Pilot Vote Center County Clerks: Video Q&A
County Clerks from Tippecanoe, Cass and Wayne County discuss their experiences with vote centers as a panel:
Did you form a study committee?
Was there resistance from community leaders?
What was the biggest challenge you faced?
What was the greatest benefit?
What types of technology did you need?
How has poll worker training changed?
What was the constituent response like?
Is there a sense of community at vote centers?
What outside organizations should you work closely with?
What is your most beneficial piece of advice?
Seven Steps to Becoming a Vote Center County
Are vote centers right for your county? If your county is considering making the switch to the vote center model, the process can be summarized into seven steps.
Step One: Gauge Interest
Remember, vote centers are not right for every county. The first step on the road to becoming a vote center county is to gauge the interest of the community by talking to leaders in and out of government. Ultimately, county council members and county commissioners have to, by majority vote, pass resolutions simply approving a county's designation as a vote center county. Unanimity is not required, and since these bodies only have to pass resolutions, the county draft vote center plan does not have to be presented to them at this early stage.
These resolutions are about confirming that the county is open to the potential change, not about actually making the change. Since council members and commissioners represent county citizens directly, their vote on vote centers can serve as a good temperature gauge for whether or not a county is open to the possibility of change.
Of course, only getting resolutions passed is not enough at this early stage. It is also important to discuss this possible change with all members of the county election board and other leaders in the community, even outside of government. After all, county clerks do not want to go through the work of drafting a county vote center plan and then fail to get unanimous support on their election board because of lack of prior communication.
Here are sample resolutions for both the county council and the county commissioners
Step Two: Form a Study Committee
We recommend that you form a study committee to evaluate if vote centers are right for your county.
Topics to discuss include:
- Infrastructure and Technology
- Electronic Poll Books
- Training and Procedures of poll workers
- Early Voting
- Preparing voters (sample press release)
- Cost
You will want your study committee to be as diverse as possible, made up of a wide-variety of people who represent different areas of the election process. (Example: an experienced poll worker, a county commissioner, a county council member, an IT specialist, etc.)
Here is a sample letter asking an individual to participate in a study committee.
Step Three: Draft Your Plan
Draft a detailed and thorough vote center plan. In your plan, include resolutions passed by commissioners and council members. This is the result of the work of your study committee.
A Sample Vote Center Plan
Step Four: Seek Public Comment
After your vote center plan is complete, open the draft for public comment for at least 30 days. You may want to amend your plan based on the comments of the public.
Step Five: Election Board Approval
Your vote center plan needs to be unanimously passed by your county's election board. The election board may also offer amendments to the plan. To amend a vote center plan that has already been unanimously passed by the election board or to abolish vote centers, a unanimous vote of the county election board is required.
Step Six: File Your Plan
No state approval of your plan is necessary. It just has to be on file, along with any future amendments, at the Indiana Election Division.
Draft a letter to the Election Division requesting your county's switch to vote centers and include it with your plan.
Step Seven: Learn from Experience
Continue to evaluate vote centers in your county with every passing election. Amend your plan where necessary and file amendments with the Indiana Election Division.